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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 25, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 251mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening oct. 35, 1061 these Days by George e. Sokolsky wages and welfare Josrph o Sullivan of san Fernando. In a letter to me about musicians makes a most interesting observation on the Law of wages. He says a what these musicians want As does every competent Workman be he an electrician a bricklayer a plumber or even a fiddler is pay commensurate with irs contribution to the Public welfare Quot wages Arr paid with four factors in View i. The Purcha. No Power of the Dollar 2 the imply of the particular 3 tile willingness of the worker to accept the offered pay 4 the advantage of Over unemployment insurance i shall Deal with this in detail i and 2. A stenographer in new York demand about Sho a week in 1961 she is not Likely to Ive As competent a. In 1020 although she apparently gets More Money. The reason is that the purchasing Power of the Dollar is Worth less and tile possibility of earning More As a manicurist or a receptionist is greater therefore there is a shortage of stenographers and More a to to paid for hem similarly there us a shortage of nurses and other skilled workers for Many purposes the unskilled worker is inst As Good four selected in aes program the local selection committee of the american Field service selected four it. Pleasant High school students out of 16 applicants for possible a americana abroad Quot participation till summer or tile coming school year. They Are Ralph Brown son of or and mrs Rex Brown Salem Charles Miller son of mrs. Gertrude Miller and tile late Floyd Miller Mary Jensen daughter of or. And mrs Willard Jensen and Linda Riepe daughter of or. And mrs albeit Riec. The names and applications be forwarded to the ass Hou Dequar a us in new York and from them a a a Lection Likely be made. However h is always possible that none id 11 a four would get to go because if circumstances that might de a it lop. I relatives and friends see i soldiers leave Alert army in Berlin wives and children other relatives and friends gathered a the army Reserve Center Here Early wednesday morning to set it the local unit members off to Active duty at 1 it Leonard Wood. To there were tears As families were separated from their husbands and fathers Aud toted ones departed the occasion had elements of Toavs of the Pat when troops departed but obviously had two major and important differences i one difference obviously is that the country is not involved in a shooting and the other the the Active duty period Likely be for no More than one year i the local unit is under the command of 1st la Jay g. Halverson As announced tuesday he has been a member of the local unit the past two years although in attached for training to a unit at Waterloo it Halverson has b n an Engineer with the state Highway commission and has had considerable military experience _ i he succeeds Cit Leo Turley. Des Moines up a Cie who has been transferred to Bat sense witness testified today that Talion Headquarters As operations a car ostensibly driven by the killer officer <s03� replacing major robot . Daly last june 9 did Ert Mcquade capt Turley a nut look Liki a tines shown Hun of been the commanding off in u of the flu car belonging to accused Slayer local unit for the pa-1 la years and Ronald m s Imp during his period the unit w. Re Charlrs Leake. 21, testified he organized from anti aircraft saw i car j old wig 8 to to feet Quot Tery to an Engineer company behind the a in which Daly and witness doubtful about car Eisenhower sees possibility of a Dollar Ettesv action taken in face of interference bad during the period of Active duty before the men left from oct 15, tile local unit has been drilling in the open and frequently on local Street this is the first time since the air Force unit stationed at Iowa we saw an that uniformed service falling he could men on Active duty have beet. Son Drivers of either car drilling Here it has been pointed his Anet wait Riding Down tile Street Tow Rod Daly s Home. However lie said the second car appeared to. Him to have a a torpedo Back and did not look by Quot the pictures he saw of stump s car which has been described As having a Tell Quot Back he also because night not Sec the tin number of persons in eith out by local resident Dalys emcee pretty blonde coed let inn i Jean Skultity 21, has testified a ear followed she and Daly Down the Street and that stump emerged from that car and fired the fatal shots another witness Iowa Highway patrol i a do operator Donald Dye of Ankeny testified that there a a possibility that an Iowa Highway patrol car at the scene of the crime a Short time after the shooting i lil disclosure appeared to Surprise both tile prosecution and deft n it and Dye a asked to redid k his tape recording of his broadcasts to determine whether he had Lisp itched a patrol cur to the so enc Frank g. Rich taken by death College graduates Mustfo in la classed As unskilled workers because what they have Learned in College is of no advantage to anyone but to themselves they have not gained a Saleable skill. On the other hand a plumber has an unusual and valuable skill under the system of education now in Vogue 1 in the United states less than a masters degree is of Little specialized skill 3 there a time when the worker accepted any wage he offered in the Mckinley Campaign of my childhood the phrase. A a Dollar a Day Anett full dinner pail Quot represented great Prog-1 re workers did a minimum of a 54-hour week and the late it a unions of Sam Gompers demanded an eight hour Day. Today be worker has the mass Protection of labor unions which1 Means hat he does not accept a or the hours of employment offered the Union negotiate for the workers and if an employer is unwilling to bargain with the Union All the workers go on strike. Which can damage a business of a worker is dissatisfied his Union get him a Job in some other company. From the standpoint of the worker he is no longer a part of the Industry in w hich he works he is a member of the Union which fights for him for the dues it receives from him. Tile worker therefore Van accept or reject the wages offered regardless of the need of the employer for workers or the needs of the workers for a Job. 4 tin brings us to the fourth Factor in tins situation namely unemployment insurance which whatever its Virtues has worked out to protect the Lazy the incompetent the impudent. In fact 2 p no with Rev Omar Nisley of ant began leaving by truck and car a worker who w nits to be fired so fixating a it or funeral Home in Early wednesday in rout to it that he can get unemployment in Wayland is in charge Leonard Wood to. Tile remainder no Ranee create issues with a lie the son of Peter and Barbara were nodules to depart by by object of being or missed whiner Rich he born in later in the Day. Washington county. April 21, 1876 i about half of Tho some 400 men the relationship of the lob to he had been a Fanner his entire Are Farmer with a sizeable number skill does not appear in All this life most of it in the Wayland of businessmen and teacher and if an assistant professor in a uni Vicinity and the last 18 years near varsity receives a smaller Coin pen Washington Salton than one of Hof fans Duce payers it is because As an economic proposition that is All the Job is Worth even if professors w arc to unionize As new York school teacher have attempted to do the wage situation of teachers on any level would not improve greatly because the Supply of competent persons in this Field is presumably greater than the de Mand i say presumably because if the whole truth were told there Are too few competent teachers which explains Why a student majors in a subject and knows Little or nothing about it. The subject of Public welfare or social welfare does not enter into this discussion at All. It May be True that a musician adds to the culture of a nation but no nation places the value of the musician above that of a missile worker even in soviet Russia where cultural workers Are better paid than in Many countries a musician is not paid More than a factory worker or a factory manager depending on the level of the Job. In Mozart time a Nobleman might have subsidized a musician but such a mib Sidy would not be work advances on a erection of a it. Pleasant near the county Stone Quarry is progressing Bridge formerly on primary 6 West of \11.�ntit to pay the drayage to Henry county. Contract for erecting it and Pla it ing a Burton instruction company for approximately much of the steel e in so some 2,500 bolts had to be used crumpled into the Creek a few months a Bridge Over big reek two Miles Southwest of towards completion. Henry county obtained the from the state Highway commission without Cost except Concrete floor let to the already assembled hut to Complete the Assembly. The Bridge replaced the one that coming for Wesleyan events the fill lilt i i la 11 of is Quot Iii l leu in lowing fuels ill Eon i tee t science its ii Ca i urn i a of Tine evil. I lines win Rad in i Ion w Rioin i ii or. I Lee a ii ii Obei to ii of Lei i v Quot Vav ill he flow la to Hilt u in i i get a econ i a Iii it i by expert Allen of hued a tells Are Nuino i Vav i i i a Oine i la of. V i i i i i lie indie i. Live Iowa a i Ion a lev i lie a ant. Add r Gromyko pleads for negotiations id Dill i a lev Eta in it i i n Frank g Rich. 85. Encl at Washington county Hospital shortly before noon tuesday. October 24 services Lye Friday afternoon 27, at the Eicher Church a Kuk fort by Upit tile bulk of Iowa s activated re serve and National guard units i a the Trail wednesday and headed for training Camps Aero the nation to help Boist. U s Force in the Berlin units of a lie 495th Engineer Bat Talion from Southeast Iowa and the 1063rd aviation company from Waterloo began pulling out about Dawn by truck Convoy and by two other Iowa units already we re in route to their bases the 301.St Field Hospital of Cedar Raj ids monday night Ai d the 411th ordnance battalion maintenance and Supply Headquarters de a pachment of Davenport left tues a Day night tile fifth Iowa unit ordered to it it Active dire effective of 25, 11 in j 404th signal company of . J due to depart by rail it noon the unit Quot include More than 1.000 men who were ordered Federal service effective of 15 in a callup issued sept to Advance in its of the 495th Engineer battalion which includes from Burlington. Co Madison and it pleas i Iconium y in Loii in a it a. I b a pm. A ii i n ii abit or. Ami of a s. Kit sep Vav drive in from k Resim. Head of the Coin a ii a which heals his i or. J a Din in a la Jig arrive Early Iii order at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel i Hilll in v to. Public is j i j \ i led. Or. Ami mrs. William Lake. Sr., of Glencoe or lakes who speak it the we Levan la ram daddy government Plain elect Roll in Resea Reb or. Sell. Add in ii Katt it As. Name. To give morn i n mint meet Mig St in i he evening attend the even i s. Recent in retired As president of the Garth son is an i a to project Engineer. Or. Aud mrs. Ralph tries. Itmann Ami son it attend. The building is named in memory be Cuianu s father. I lie i rus Lees meet ing my j in an. Washington i r it Angeles Angels baseball Feva s. Or Miff chairman of the Board of company Fly into Burlington. I ll., Parent associates m r. A a lies Ltd a lid v i n. W ill Trie trustees coming col i mimic i a a til a. 1 i i ii rec of Liers of the los it i if Ion Boose. 111 Ai s t on i lobe i t broadcast in or. Will to v a \ id i a a i Mer of bit Duel his private plane Bere. These a re a few of the a ii v Vav ii ant i d the events. Newspaper telex of file even t Imas great i. Pleasant in recent veal i fit or j a i a i Ltd Ira go of or. The events one of tin team and n a t hum i i by v in port. Or w ill come to m t. I Mea it Ion Aud i Adio coverage realer than for a ii v event in Advance information helical Moscow uti for ton minister Andrei Gromyko made a Flung plea today tor negotiation. Between Premier Kin ii. Hinev and president al Linen it Learned. A die it Kennedy and Khrushchev preside not Over a world catastrophe but Over negotiations for an improvement in Sovie american Gromyko told the Days 22nd soviet communist party Congress. Rehab la sources Aid Gromyko said thi Union would Welcome a any action from a he United states Iii this direction according to persons if Trie tin Kremlin a pillar it of it gone Reive. Gromyko Aid Kennedy u a Democrat a tire by president Franklin i Gromyko pleaded for a return to what he called a the tested policies of the Roo Eycle Era which would by a Benefit to both people i omy to devoted a Large Par of irs 40-Minuti spec h to stressing the need tor to got j a Lions o improve soviet american relations he followed Khrushchev Lead by offering to negotiate an East West new York it up i w in t i Eisenhower blamed president Kennedy tuesday night for fir a i infusion which ii Quot said could leave american holding Hunken value Tim former pre. Dent Alo took his Succes or a administration to task for the peace Cor which he ailed a juvenile Experiment although al on Hewer came t new York to boost the mayoral candidacy of gof states atty Gen Louis Lefkowitz against democratic mayor Robert f Wagner his mightiest blows were aimed a Kennedy and the administrations fiscal policies in Spok Quot at a $100-a-plate fund raising dinner for the Republican City ticket Eisenhower railed Kennedy expenditure a in comprehend ibid Quot and a. Cd. A a of we can t pay our debts what a going to happen to this country he Are used the administration of creating a a Tornado Quot of Conli Ion. Saying it has a done a Good Job of confusing me and All my i f Send. Ere allowed id that first the Public told Thoro would be a by la need budget and next that there would be a $6 7 billion defied he declared it Moos sip to a Pend yourself into the former pie Ideal said it a impose Ible to have with a shrinking Dollar that Ute currency Nuger be earn u. S army Bah i in up put in. 6,500-m.tn on a full Alert for hours today Iii a deed commons with am bean or City Border. I to Washington a s part me tit Anontine d the f United states had protest soviet Union against a sch attempts to farce u s Cit show identification when Enka to Berlin Mills a in 3.35 w As tile a in lifted at a dts i America to of through Point at crossing Back it later to o u 37 America children taking by tour of Hie i Hie buses ref in Affer More avoid Board. Cd after of by the it a Cai no big col fill a v i. It r n v be or r to v a a b Berlin up with Aremd u s in men today escorted Lin an american a Progress Ryung two civ.,. Warning barred previously by Border guards. To to f a Kiowa As a idol layettes Quot Beau f there would be to Many More of them and they would be Worth Little Eisenhower called Ute peace corps a a juvenile Experiment Quot launched to a spend a we have Post card that the people. Cut on corp it missions. Know what an country the by 20 sonnet american auks and carriers t two hat g e re a eke armoured stood by a i am sector. After in it Victor Johnson Dies unexpectedly troop train is wrecked recons new research director Irra a y but w St such Sinai Quot a loll. With .1,1 Germany Gromyko said that if the is not willing to negotiate treaty. Moscow sign a pact with la. A Germany he married january to Loon to Lydia Eicher who preceded him in death in 1924 two daughter.-. Verda and Mabel also predeceased him. He is survived by four sons and four daughters. Edwin Rich. Irvan Rich. Mrs Dale Musser All of i Washington Orville and Florence i a Home might Wayne Allen. Morning Sun. Glen Rich san Luis obis j to. Calif., and mrs Charles Peck Pulaski 22 grandchildren Aud 16 great grandchildren three Sisters mrs de Eicher Washington mrs Margaret soil a Ritz Wayland mrs Sam Avenger. Worthington Minn he a member of the Wayland mennonite Church i 13 employee of the Iowa ordnance Plant at Burlington. The unit is commanded by major Wayne bums superintendent of schools at Mediapolis Rural Washington girl killed Washington Iowa Ufi a Shirley Ayers la. Rural Washington killed today when a car driven by her Mother collided with a truck at a county Road intersection Northwest of Here. Mrs. Ayers and the Driver of the truck John Kenneth Patterson. Jr., 34 of n a Washington were injured. Fort Madison up incumbent Walter Guenther and Robert Tibbetts were the two finalists named to compete in the general election by 2,265 voters in the primary election for mayor Here tuesday. Burrows and Mennen named at Burlington Miles City. Moi Hiis ii a troop Tram carrying we. Otis in 1 National guardsmen t Berlin crisis duty piled into a loaded gravel truck at a Mach crossing today with an Impact that de railed several cars and set the truck and locomotive aflame police id the truck Driver killed and three urn mine were reported missing in the wreckage. None of the guardsmen members of wisc on in a 32nd red Arrow infantry division a. By a Nievod seriously Hurt 1 the Milwaukee Road troop tra a i speeding Westward with 385 infantrymen headed tor training at it. Lewis Wash. The Wisconsin division one of the first big units called up after the Berlin crisis. I three Milos West of Here the heavy gravel truck pulled across the single track main lint from an unguarded Rural Road. Flip i train s diesel locomotive hit it and the truck s gasoline tank erupted i into flames that spread to the big engine. The locomotive and eight Cir. Of tile 21-car train left the track j two coaches telescoped into cac i other. Des Moines tip Ben. It lit Ford Vance. Pleasant announced today Point Maut of Allan i Side a Moun the a it Grinc John w. Tipton Dies in Rhode Island recons As the new director of the Iowa legislative research Bureau Vance is tile chairman of tin legislative research committee. Recons 31. Ii.-., Bren a of sear ii Stocia e in the Bureau sept 1959. Ile succeed. Clay a in. In Enberg who left the Bureau sep i to become director of research for the Iowa league of municipalities. Recons a be ii a Fry of $7,500. William g h Lund. 27, who has been ii the Bureau Nee sept 1959 appt need first research associate at a salary of $6,600 per year recons is a native of mount Vernon and has received a and a degrees in a it Oln of science from tile University of Iowa tile legislative research Bureau set up to provide full time research service for Iowa legislators. The Bureau presently has a staff of four although indicated additional personnel maybe hired in the future. John w Tipton 78. Died sunday october 22, in Providence r i to is survived by his w Ido Rebecca e still Tipton s 1 s w i be in Lei a he Weir Cooke it funeral Home thursday get 26, at 2 30 pm with or Alvin t a Berry office Tang. Interment w.be in East cemetery at Salt in. A or Johnson 54. Died in expect Quot it Home North of it. Puissant. Tuesday oct. 24, about 7 45 p in Lin son of Aaron and Belle conic a Johnson he us. Born august1907. In Marion township Henry comity Prairie Gem Community. In a lifelong resident of Henry county when he engaged in farm my and wa., a member of the Prairie Gem methodist Church on february 27, 1931, he married at Iowa City to Maxim Becker who survives. One son Ivan two grandchildren Valerie my Andrea All of Richardson. To it x me brother Harlan Johnson and two nephews. Robert h. And Gar. Johnson Alloi Winfield also survive. His parents and one brother Hilbert. Predeceased Hun. Funeral services to held Friday oct. 27, at 2 pm. At the r k Cran Reserve on the waste Border. Tire commo attempt to prevent evidence american Automo ii peace to into the extern. Did t oven turned to urn we t u n Deroeve i o pc cd minutes it a dram display cd a a u s. Determination to in for Western High of Lee travel i. Both sectors of Berlin. To prove they meant Busine five of the american tanks with Crews in combat dress Roll cd right up to the White line at suborder after the civilian car returned. A w de by mounted in front of one of the tanks Pic aus. Arm tense Friedrich Strasse said Shor by afterwards would try to Settle the a conference the Here. Man at to Check on the Arar dispute i Russia new a spy satellite at work in it i Home a funeral Home with inter a he font Home cemetery kids May Call at the funeral As they desire. Trucker and Load Cape America proc in designed Pearl us the in p h Den Berg last sat u canal in we i the s Kral mid. gather combustible Joe ills missing material for Bonfire _ it pleasant n Opportunity Bastible tra h residents have to get rid of com thursday Iowa goal line notice Burlington. Iowa up a Earl a. Burrows and James n. Men Nen were picked by Burlington Vot ors in a primary election tuesday accepted by local 802 of the my candidates for mayor. The goal line club Wui meet a. Sic Ian a Union for a flautist in the the incumbent mayor Ray mor the Rea building tonight wed met. I Rison Defeated. Ines amp or at 7 30 of clock College copyright 1961. King features the general election be held Grid films w ill be shown and the Syndicate ii a nov. 7 i local coaches talk. Valla Urie France up the most Fantom Painter alive is 80 years old today. He is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomucene Crispin crispinian de la Rantissi Ina Trinidad Ruiz Blanco who Calls himself Pablo Picasso for i Short. We Ivan freshman gather Good material for the Colic Quot Homecoming it u necessary to Telephone 970 to arrange to have a he freshmen pick up the n fuse. Collections be from i to i p m. The Bonfire d following the Boom night enter to. N me it Friday night and takes place on the Campus. Bob Haeger. Algonquin. 111., and Guy Burwell. Elmhurst 111, Are Cha men for t m Phelps manager of the Hillsboro Grain so Supply co., re Kart cd to so Riff Russell Van Tun i tuesday night that an employee of his Leroy Atwood Hillsboro left for Wiver tuesday morning with a truck Load of Beatus and is missing. The value of the truck and Beans want estimated at $500. Authorities Are trying to help locate him. Tours t Almeh in in tuesday Given its Brough canaveral. Air Force mis rang Voya the satellites n wide open v lion devices aboard satellite picked up Diat ions from he less than two nun rocket la a in in. A 98-1 a an it e in Cai tra Cool do the Multi Infra red s exp it s a in or admitted to probate be Bonfire Ottumwa Impi were searching for the of James we Messer has been admitted to probate at the authorities courthouse and according to tile Niieves who terms his property left to his took about $200 from the wooden children. Albert. Harlan Zell har show tavern Here tuesday. By and Jessie Messer. The tavern custodian found Harry Messer appointed Adon huts overturned and tile Cash mini Strator with annexed. The Register knocked open drawn up aug. 3, 1927. Midas a pm a. Rit u tin mat Ion of tape recorders and tinted its orb Quot a1 flight at Earth. When it passed Iga n the California Basta r fore dentists tapped its a memory radio signals. By Midas in that a la at a certain t Hie tip Sun y told them lain cued my its flight. At a sensitive Ock it be iia to that station in space can detect the firing of sizeable rocks qu�?T1 Earls Iii their flights

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